WAIRARAPA
, (M MLMUM.-»fICUI TO ;TM MS?.) ;! ;; ; MASTERTON. This v Day. :, Ten bankruptcies were recorded ia Masterton last year, as against nine in, 1923. They comprised two labourers, 'one j tailor, one share-milker^ one sawy miller, one farmer, one company secrer tary, one firm of bakers, one contractor, and one motor mechanic. ;-.• •'. Deposits at the Masterton Post' Office Savings Bank for the quarter ended 31st December, totalled £73,023. 5s 9d,: and withdrawals amounted to £71,129 13s 4d. ./At a meeting of ratepayers.of the UpV per Taueru Riding-;of the Masterton County, it was decided to raise a loan to purchase ten or!twelve acres of land and build a roadman's, cottage of four rooms,on the Glendonald Station. ; -'...' :. Mr. D.M. Rutherford, formerly engineer at the Waingawa Freezing- Works, has left for Oamaru to.take up.the position of engineer at.the Puke^uri Works:*•; .Mr. ■S. Finlayson, of .the Mastertoa staff of the ?few Zealand Loan and Mer-, cantile Agency Co., has received notice of his promotion; to a "position in the. firm's .Nelson office. -' ■ Dr. D. : J.. Cameron .has' returned to' Masterton from a trip 'to the United States.-'. •,. -.■• ■".-■•■ - •;; : ••;•'• • . ••. ■ '■ The annual report of the LoyaL Masterton Lodge of Oddfellows > shows': that during the ■ year. the interest- ominvest-. ments yielded £238 17s lid,, while the sick pay'totalled £165 15s, and levy to central body £65 15s 9d. ■-.;; During December the. Masterton Borough Council issued • eight building permits, representing a total value of £3357: During last year 157 .permits to the total value.of £97;773 were issued^ asicom-. pared with 169 permits to the value of £90,434 in 1923. ■•■'■.. - - - .
CARTERTON, This Day.. On the Cartertbri bowling .green yesterday afternoon; a match for the Grady medals _ was played between Hall and Hart (holders) and Sinclair and Eae (challengers) the holders winning after a close and interesting .game, by 22 to 19. The death occurred at Carrington yesterday of. Mr. James Petrie in his 82nd year.: He had lived for many years in the Wairarapa. . v T. ....... . ■ .;.! Yesterday ari: official-visit "was paid t<Sthe headworks' of the Cartertpn '.vratei.' supply scheme by members of the council. Numerous, slips^ were found on th« '•;■ hillside along which 1* the .pipe'line'runs,and present .and "future trouole of an expensive'nature" revealed itself. • ••■■'
WAIRARAPA
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 8
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